A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking ...

Scientists Learn How a 500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shaped Like a Taco Ate An ancient shrimplike creature is helping scientists understand how mandibles became so common among animals.

A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

Nigeria has richer sunlight than Spain, deeper gas reserves than Norway, and hydropower potential rivalling that of Ethiopia.

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.